CNN :
Two Spanish journalists held more than six months in Syria are on their way home, Spain’s El Mundo newspaper reported Sunday.
The newspaper said that El Mundo staff correspondent Javier Espinosa and freelance photographer Ricardo Garcia Vilanova had been handed over to authorities in Turkey, and showed a picture of them together in apparent good health and spirits at the airport in Beirut.
The article did not go into detail about how they were freed.
The two journalists were kidnapped in September.
Garcia was traveling with Espinosa but not on assignment for El Mundo.
Espinosa, 49, and Garcia, 42, have made numerous trips to war-torn Syria, often together, and they organized their most recent visit together, foreign editor Ana Alonso earlier told CNN.
Espinosa was previously kidnapped while covering a conflict in Sierra Leone, and Garcia was kidnapped in 2012 in Syria for about 12 days, said Gervasio Sanchez, a Spanish veteran war photographer who knows both me. Both were subsequently released.
